Punch-Drunk Love
We were delighted to previously screen this film but we have no current plans to screen it again. If you'd like to watch it in the cinema, consider a private hire to watch it with friends. That does rely on the film being available for private purchase.
Film details
| Film Title | Punch-Drunk Love |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 96mins |
| Year | 2002 |
| Country | US |
| Director | Audie Harrison |
| Actors | Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Adam Sandler, Luis Guzmán, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Robert Smigel, Jason Andrews, Don McManus, David Schrempf, Seann Conway |
| Language | English |
| Showings |
A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.
Anderson has a firm grip on Sandler’s dangerous essence and draws it out in an astonishing performance.
★★★★
[Sandler] plays Barry just as he would any of the comic dolts who’ve made him rich but this time all the panicky sadness is out where we can see it. It’s a honey of a performance: controlled, achingly human, and funny in the deepest ways.
★★★★
What Mr. Anderson wants to do is recapture, without nostalgia, the giddiness and sweep of old movies, and his mastery of the emotional machinery of the medium is breathtaking.
★★★★★
New York TimesAnderson orchestrates a comic romance like no other. The effect is intoxicating.
★★★★
Rolling Stone
